I remember seeing this, watched EVERY flyers game. This was so great! My last trip to ottawa, crossed over the border and went to the museum of civilization again. They were featuring a 'hockey's first" exhibit. Hextall was featured in the programming. Was in tears.. felt so great to see this honored! Flyers fan what can I say? 💛🖤💚💚💚
I attended the Flyers next home game after Hextall’s first goal and I’ll never forget him being presented a new car at center ice before faceoff as a gift for this accomplishment!
Ah, the good old days at the Spectrum. Went to a game. TV Timeout. The opposing goalie glides the puck down to the Flyers end. Hextall stops short of the bench, skates to the puck, gets it on his stick blade and glides it back down. At this point, we're all getting loud in there. The other goalie wrists the puck at the Flyer net. Hextall stops the puck and now that building is at DefCon 1. Hextall fires the puck as hard as he could at the other net. Zebras got involved and shut it down. That building was insane. We have not won a Cup for a very long time but in the 1980's and 1990's we had some great times. Thanks Hexy
No way Hextall is a HOF goalie. Hockey's HOF is too easy to get in It is the Hall of Good instead of the Hall of Great. MLB does it right by limiting it to the best of the best.
Broduer is one of the best goaltenders in history, no doubt, but there are many who arguably could be considered the best. Gump Worsley. Terry Sawchuck. Glenn Hall, Ken Dryden. Billy Smith is considered by many, if not most, to be the best money goalie of all time! And how about Dominic Hassick?! An argument can be made for each of them. I'd say they're all great, and leave it at that!
Wow this day in history 33 years ago. It was no surprise at all. Everyone was always saying for 2 years prior that he has a better shot then most players in the league. The commentaries and news reports and of course the fans like me and especially in Philadelphia all said he was gonna score a goal on an empty net in his future. Everyone was saying it was just a matter of time and that Tuesday night he finally nailed it. It was still a thrill to see in the reels on the news that night. Awesome still to this day. Love it !
I was so pissed when Roy in 99 came within feet of doing that...but time ran out. Puck went in but was just outside the crease when the buzzer went off.
Didn't Billy Smith get credited with a goal while he was with the Islanders several years before this? If memory serves me right, Smith didn't shoot the puck, he was the last Islander to touch the puck before it was put in the opponent's own goal.
wrong!!! Was the first goalie to shoot and score but was not the first goalie to get a goal....... you think ppl would know this fact! Billy was the first goalie to be awarded a goal as it shows in this video.
I think the advent of the trapizoid was ridiculous. It should be removed. To me a good puck handling goaltender is akin to a good hitting pitcher in baseball! You're punishing someone because they have skills most don't.
There are actually 12 different goalies who have scored a total of 15 goals! 8 of them were by the goalie shooting it in himself and 7 by the other team scoring in their own net! Brodeur has three in his career(1 by shooting it and 2 by the other team scoring in their own net)
There is only one act that must dissolve the totality of the conditioning. So that the brain has to face this fact, that though it has been shaped in the process of time and now it’s facing a challenge, which says think and act totally differently, which is not of time.
@@TiazaLynn There is a difference. Smith did not shoot the puck into the opposing net. He was only credited because he was the last Islander to touch the puck, before Rob Ramage passed it back into his own net. Smith got credited with a goal due to a technicality on the rule book
@@mr.mangotango6523 he "DID" not "DIED" ... Big meaning different there pal. And he clearly wasn't showing all the goals scored by goalies. Just the first few when they were literally unheard of
Smith didnt properly score the goal, he was credited with it for being the last player to touch the puck, but it was a player from the opposing team that scored in their own goal. Hextall was the first to properly shoot and score.
Bruh, you have any idea how hard it is to perfect a shot with a big goal stick? Not to mention doing it against forecheckers? Or risking missing the net and icing the puck, and getting a faceoff back in your zone? Or risking turning over the puck? Use your head
I remember seeing this, watched EVERY flyers game. This was so great! My last trip to ottawa, crossed over the border and went to the museum of civilization again. They were featuring a 'hockey's first" exhibit. Hextall was featured in the programming. Was in tears.. felt so great to see this honored! Flyers fan what can I say? 💛🖤💚💚💚
Bro someone that old uses emojis lmao
Saw the Hextall goals when they happened. Loved watching him play.
Hextall, one of the best goal scoring fighters in old time hockey, despite of being goalie
One of the best moments for Philadelphia!
Not surprising
The other one involved Bill Burr. :p
One of the best moments in the NHL! I love that memory :)
Watched this on tv, and even as a Bruins fan, I still was happy to see the goal. History.
I attended the Flyers next home game after Hextall’s first goal and I’ll never forget him being presented a new car at center ice before faceoff as a gift for this accomplishment!
I love how he accidentally says "The first player" at first instead of "the first goalie"
Do you love that?
i also score a lot of empty net goals
Loui Eriksson all hail our lord and savior
Yeah why is this memorable when you’ve scored more???
Well when it’s the only way you can, I guess that’s something.
Nucks Memes is that you?
Trash stay in Vancouver
I still remember this like yesterday. I was a big Flames fan back then but I loved Ron Hextall
Remind of of that VHS on goalies while Brodeur and Hasek still played. Gold tape
Pretty cool piece of history
Billy Smith. That was my guy. When I played hockey they called me Smitty. I always took it as a high compliment
I remember seeing a clip of the press conference after the game. Hestall: "Before any of you guys says anything, I was aimin' for that corner."
Left the game early and was in my car at the time! Never left a game early again.
RON HEXTALL - - ALL THE WAY ---
Hextall: “Before you guys ask, I ALWAYS aim for that corner.”
Ah, the good old days at the Spectrum. Went to a game. TV Timeout. The opposing goalie glides the puck down to the Flyers end. Hextall stops short of the bench, skates to the puck, gets it on his stick blade and glides it back down. At this point, we're all getting loud in there. The other goalie wrists the puck at the Flyer net. Hextall stops the puck and now that building is at DefCon 1. Hextall fires the puck as hard as he could at the other net. Zebras got involved and shut it down. That building was insane. We have not won a Cup for a very long time but in the 1980's and 1990's we had some great times. Thanks Hexy
Ron Hextall is way long overdue to the Hockey Hall Of Fame
Same with Mike Vernon
@@TheSkeletor612 yes ty
No way Hextall is a HOF goalie. Hockey's HOF is too easy to get in It is the Hall of Good instead of the Hall of Great. MLB does it right by limiting it to the best of the best.
Hextall in the hall of fame????? Hahahaha yeah right what the hell has he ever done to deserve going into the hall of fame?
@@The_Bad_Guy. uh hello . He won a Vezina & a Conn Smythe on the losing side . Plus 2 Stanley cups as a la assistant GM
That looks so fun. I wish i played hockey
I was there that night!! What an amazing feat.
Does anyone else remember the Brad Marsh head injury that game also?
Didn't he hit his head sliding into the goal post? Wasn't that how the breakaway rubber pegs the goal cages sit on today became known as "Marsh Pegs"?
I was there also, I said let's go to beat the traffic, my gf said no we r staying till the end ...
I loved Hextall...I was a big Flyers fan when he was their goalie.
Hextall - Legend.
Among the many cool goalie goals, Jose Theodore scored one on a backhand flip.
I saw that Brodeur goal in person in 1997 :)
Awesome " I got this! " moments!
Broduer was and will always be the greatest hockey goalie the sport had.
Broduer is one of the best goaltenders in history, no doubt, but there are many who arguably could be considered the best. Gump Worsley. Terry Sawchuck. Glenn Hall, Ken Dryden. Billy Smith is considered by many, if not most, to be the best money goalie of all time! And how about Dominic Hassick?! An argument can be made for each of them. I'd say they're all great, and leave it at that!
@@jimmalachowsky4052 and none of them hold the records Broduer does
@@healthybeans3161 Broduer backstopped 3 cup winners, Billy Smith 4, and 5 cup finalists. Glenn Hall started 502 CONSECUTIVE GAMES!
Outstanding!!! As a kid, I played GOALIE.. My Dream was to score the game winning goal in game 7 of the Stanley Cup.
Wish I could say I saw those in person, but alas I can only say I saw the Hextall and Osgood goals on tv back then.
I was at the Spectrum for the Hextall goal and I saw Smiths goal on tv...
Wow this day in history 33 years ago. It was no surprise at all. Everyone was always saying for 2 years prior that he has a better shot then most players in the league. The commentaries and news reports and of course the fans like me and especially in Philadelphia all said he was gonna score a goal on an empty net in his future. Everyone was saying it was just a matter of time and that Tuesday night he finally nailed it. It was still a thrill to see in the reels on the news that night.
Awesome still to this day. Love it !
Huh? Hextall wasnt even in the NHL 2 years prior to this goal. HEXTALL scored this goal in his 2nd year in the league.
An even better GM
good stuff!
Billy Smith is the first goalie to score a goal
Yes, but Hextall was the first to actually shoot it is what they mean. It literally was mentioned in the video.
Having a goalie who can puck-handle like Hextall is like having a third defenseman on the ice.
Yeah, and that's not the only thing he could do with the goaliestick :)
Cup wins are more important than stick handling goalies. Just look at Mike Smith.
@@Dloweification a goalie is only one guy. Cup wins signify all the moving parts; not individual pieces.
Except it's not lol, like at all
@@Dloweification Billy Smith! Best money goalie in hockey history!
saw smith do it live in AZ 😁
the hype in the announcers voice got me hyped and this happened like 40 years ago lol
I was so pissed when Roy in 99 came within feet of doing that...but time ran out. Puck went in but was just outside the crease when the buzzer went off.
What team was that against
@@usefultuber1608 Flyers in Philly if I remember correctly. No more than 4-5 feet away. He once clanged one off of the post as well.
I am here via spittin chiclets and marshys interview 😂
Hexy played with fire and guts. Very mobile for a bigger man
Hexxxxyyyy!
Hextallian!
I'm here because of The Goldbergs. Barry fighting with Murray because they missed this moment due to Murray being so uptight about traffic. LOL.
Because of the overwhelming abundance of goals scored by goalies, I understand why they couldn’t show them all. 😕
😂so many to choose from
11
There has been 15 goals scored by 12 different goalies!
Only seven goalies have scored a goal with a shot on goal. Pekka Rinne was the most recent, last season.
Sports used to be so fun.
sports is the best and always remembered with rose colored glasses in your childhood.
Hell has frozen over.....Welcome To Pittsburgh Ron
It's funny how the title says
"Ron Hextall Scores The First Ever Goalie Goal!"
0:28 Billy Smith scores in 1979
Yes, but Hextall was the first to actually shoot it is what they mean. It literally was mentioned in the video.
He made a really decent hockey team too
Didn't Billy Smith get credited with a goal while he was with the Islanders several years before this? If memory serves me right, Smith didn't shoot the puck, he was the last Islander to touch the puck before it was put in the opponent's own goal.
Didn't you watch the video? They show Billy Smiths goal. Rob Ramage of the Rockies scores on his own net after Billy Smith made a save off him
Well, Billy Smith was credited with a goal 8 years earlier. He did not shoot the puck like Hextall did though.
That was covered in the video.
Compare the stats with cheevers and Tim Thomas. Also hex and Eddie G.
He has scored more NHL goals than me. Because I am dead.
Can we talk about the guy at 1:23 who dumped the puck in, when his team had their goalie pulled?
Surprised it doesn't happen more.
I hate to be THAT guy, but he's technically not the first goalie to score a goal. He's the first one to physically shoot the puck into the net though.
um.. that's literally what it said in the video
@@ethanbrunton21 I was basing it solely on the title and description of the video, my bad
Ummm ya thats exactly what the video said
@@misguidedangel6550 please read my reply... I didn't watch the video before making my comment, i read the title and description
@@ezwelchman ahhh ok gotcha man ya Billy was the first with the a credited goal against the Rockies put in by former Calgary Flame Rob Ramage
The first goalie to score was Billy Smith
Yes, but Hextall was the first to actually shoot it is what they mean. It literally was mentioned in the video.
Bring hockey back to hartford
Yes their empty arena would fit in perfectly nowadays.
wrong!!! Was the first goalie to shoot and score but was not the first goalie to get a goal....... you think ppl would know this fact! Billy was the first goalie to be awarded a goal as it shows in this video.
Yes it does show that in the video. So how can you say hes wrong?
Huh? Thats exactly what the video says Einstein
This video is proof of having to have good judgment of when and when not to pull your goalie.
what are you talking about its either try to force tie way in or dump and chase.. Goalies should only try when up by 2 or you risk an icing
A goalie scoring is the same thing in the NFL when the kicker gets a touchdown...
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Wasnt billy smith the first goalie to score a goal?
The video says it: Smith was the first goalie to be credited with a goal, but Hextall was the first goalie who would actually put the puck in the net.
Then who was the first goalie to score a hat-trick?
Me, I did it in EASHL
EA games NHL , league was swedish hockey league
@@makreable EASHL stands for EA Sports Hockey League, it's a game mode in the NHL series
@@makreable anyone can do it with a video game controller 🎮
@@gregorymckinney666 cool dude
Brodeur was the man!
damn, even as an NJ fan I thought including MB's record of 3 goals seemed insensitive to Philly fans
I score every weekend 😜 and I'm a goalie too
Im sure you make some dude very happy
Old Time Hockey Highlights > Watching Steve Dangle
Vegas would go nuts if fluery scored
I don’t understand the billy smith one..
Hextall was the first to actually shoot it is what they mean. It literally was mentioned in the video.
Fun fact: Martin Brodeur has more career goals than Brad Marsh.
Really? Brodeur has more than 23 career goals?🤣
I think the advent of the trapizoid was ridiculous. It should be removed. To me a good puck handling goaltender is akin to a good hitting pitcher in baseball! You're punishing someone because they have skills most don't.
It was becuz NJ basically was always on the power play.. lol
When I was a kid nothing was more exciting than seeing a goalie go for that empty net.
It’s a shame post 2005 lockout NHL killed it.
Brodeur did it once more, I think? And Josh Theodore scored once as well.
Hextall did it in the playoffs too
There are actually 12 different goalies who have scored a total of 15 goals! 8 of them were by the goalie shooting it in himself and 7 by the other team scoring in their own net! Brodeur has three in his career(1 by shooting it and 2 by the other team scoring in their own net)
I HATE the Flyers cuz imma Pens fan, but this is just cool
Who else is jonesin' for hockey?
I still think Ron Hexstall was Wayne Gretsky in drag.
There is only one act that must dissolve the totality of the conditioning. So that the brain has to face this fact, that though it has been shaped in the process of time and now it’s facing a challenge, which says think and act totally differently, which is not of time.
Uuhhhhh.....oookaay
dude. take your meds. plz
He was not the first goalie to score a goal ... Billy Smith was.
Watch the video, genius!🤦♂️
@@durrrrl3435 i did, but doesnt change the fact that the title is wrong jerky licker.
@@Aut0KAD Yeah, fair enough, they could have done better on the title!
@@durrrrl3435yeah like “Hextall the first ever goalie to shoot puck and score.”
@@Tylerboyd2001 yes
Billy Smith might think differently.
Smith was credited with the goal, Hextall shot the goal.
@@roberthudson1959 Splitting hairs but same thing. Billy got credit for the goal, Which means he scored.
@@TiazaLynn because he was the last person on the time to touch the puck, so he got credited a goal
@@fartman10284 there is no difference. Billy Smith was the first goalie to score a goal in the NHL.
@@TiazaLynn There is a difference. Smith did not shoot the puck into the opposing net. He was only credited because he was the last Islander to touch the puck, before Rob Ramage passed it back into his own net. Smith got credited with a goal due to a technicality on the rule book
I used to think this was the most embarrassing moment in NHL history....then David Ayers got off his zamboni🤣
Didn’t Patrick Roy score a goal ?
Nope
Smith was the first
Yes, but Hextall was the first to actually shoot it is what they mean. It literally was mentioned in the video.
I miss Gene Hart.
selfish hextall making headlines for himself, was terrible after his rookie season. and felix potvin (40 lbs lighter) stomped him in a fight
Hextall wasn’t the first. Billy smith was the first
Yes, but Hextall was the first to actually shoot it is what they mean. It literally was mentioned in the video.
I wish Patrick Roy could have gotten one of these.
did a lot better things than score a goal
Pekka died
Bruh
@Sayg Morton they forgot to add his goal
@@adamfoxresurgencebandwagon3234 bruh
the what
@@mr.mangotango6523 he "DID" not "DIED" ... Big meaning different there pal. And he clearly wasn't showing all the goals scored by goalies. Just the first few when they were literally unheard of
First
Not the first.
Incorrect. Billy Smith scored before him I believe. Ron Hextall , however, holds the record with 2 goals .
Smith didnt properly score the goal, he was credited with it for being the last player to touch the puck, but it was a player from the opposing team that scored in their own goal. Hextall was the first to properly shoot and score.
Mat Good Maybe you actually watch the video before making a dumb comment!
But how hard is it to score on an empty net? If it got past a goalie then that would be something.
Very HARD. That's why it does not happen very often...Once in a blue moon, maybe!
Bruh, you have any idea how hard it is to perfect a shot with a big goal stick? Not to mention doing it against forecheckers? Or risking missing the net and icing the puck, and getting a faceoff back in your zone? Or risking turning over the puck? Use your head
One of the best moments for Philadelphia!
First
No ur not
I know lol
So was ron
First